“My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.” KnowsFilmNew YorkBrotherMy BrotherAcademyFilm Set Author:Elizabeth Olsen
“Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.” ActorsNew YorkBrotherBecomingMovedMy BrotherEngineers Author:Anthony Mackie
“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.” FirstsTwoStatesCultureLostUnitedUnited StatesChildhoodNew YorkBrotherTvsMomInternetConnectionsMovedMy MomDecadesBordersSpokesCablesArgentinaTwo BrothersCable TvChildhood Friend Author:Viggo Mortensen
“There was a flight from Cleveland to New York City with just two people on board. There hasn't been two people on an airplane since the Wright brothers.” PeopleTwoCitiesNew YorkBrotherFlightBoardsNew York CityAirplaneClevelandWright Brothers Author:David Letterman
“I havent seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.” YearsKidsPlayerNew YorkBrotherMovedMy BrotherHarlemBlakeConnecticut Author:John McEnroe
“Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City.” YearsBigsCitiesCareersStreetsNew YorkBrotherWallYears AgoNew York CityProfessional Career Author:Gerald Chertavian
“I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good musicians. I play for fun. They play properly. Music in general, I grew up in a house of musicians. Everybody's life has a soundtrack, I'm sitting here talking to you but there are horns beeping outside. I know I'm in New York. That's an element in the film as well. How strong that sense can be.” KnowsWellsPlayFilmHouseStrongFunTalkingNew YorkBrotherGrewBandElementsGrew UpMusicianSittingHornsDrummerSoundtracks Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers
“Being a military child, we moved a lot and we developed different vernaculars from moving from the south, to the Midwest, and seeing the world. Going from New York to California and from Jamaica Queens to the South, I was always the new kid, or had the army crew haircut. I expected people to pick up on me. My brother kinda stole all of my old jokes. He got his inspiration from me.” PeopleWorldChildrenDifferentInspirationKidsMovingSeeingMilitaryNew YorkBrotherJokesPicksArmyMovedSouthExpectedCaliforniaQueensMy BrotherCrewHaircutsSeeing The WorldMidwestJamaicaOld Jokes Author:Joe Torry
“Well, at the end of our movie Fireproof, we released a book that my brother Stephen and I wrote called The Love Dare. It was for couples. That book had a much larger impact than we expected. As a matter of fact, if I could use the term "overwhelmed," we were. The book went on to become a New York Times bestseller and sold over five-million copies and is now in 28 different countries and languages. So, we were blessed and just surprised at how well that did.” IfsWellsBookDifferentEndsCountryMatterFactsUseLanguageTermMillionsFiveNew YorkBrotherCoupleBlessedImpactDareExpectedMy BrotherIf I CouldCopiesOverwhelmedNew York TimesMatter Of FactDifferent CountriesLove Dare Author:Alex Kendrick
“I grew up learning this stuff on the streets of New York. My brother and I used to play in the subway for money.” PlayUsedStuffGrowing UpStreetsNew YorkBrotherGrewGrew UpMy BrotherSubway Author:Don Alias
“Presenting Aschenbach as a composer - based on Mahler - leads to some dreadful scenes (especially those in which Aschenbach is berated by his student), and it surely distorts the character Mann created. Yet, we know that Mann's novella was based on a holiday in Venice he took with his wife and brother, and that while he was there he followed the reports in the German newspapers, describing the dying Mahler's progress as he returned from New York to Vienna.” KnowsCharacterWifeProgressDyingNew YorkStudentsBrotherSceneNewspapersReportsHolidayComposerDescribingVenicePresentingViennaMahler Author:Philip Kitcher
“My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.” WayYearsArtWholeTogetherJobsMotherNextFatherSidesDoorsNew YorkBrotherMomMarriedScientistMovedNeighborMy BrotherDancerChicagoMy SisterSymphonyPianistWhole FamilyNext Door NeighborsCellists Author:Jason Graae
“My brother played the game with his friends, so I thought I was a pretty smart kid and I played this friend of mine and he just crushed me and this was Brooklyn Tech High School in Brooklyn where I still live, in Brooklyn, New York and this guy beat me so bad it wasn't even funny. I couldn't understand why he beat me.” StillsKidsSchoolGuyGamesNew YorkMinesBrotherSmartBeatsHigh SchoolMy BrotherThis GuyCrushedBrooklynSmart KidBrooklyn New York Author:Maurice Ashley
“[Drawing] and making things was all we ever did. My brother and I built the entire New York World's Fair of 1939 in miniature out of wax. The floor of our room was covered with little waxen buildings. Nobody else could come in.” WorldLittlesRoomsNew YorkBuildingBrotherBuiltFairsDrawingMy BrotherCoveredMiniatures Author:Maurice Sendak